I really dont see this as a trend. I see this as developer exploiting the lack of clarifications and guidelines from the authorities and
numerous loopholes while taking advantage of the hot market. (facilities, carparks, plot ratios, disbursement schedules, construction duration,
commercial/retail guidelines, management and security is not clear also)

there will be genuine interest in these development but to me most will be used for residentials / storage place / office.
why not build service apts (this is bs also, msian service apts), or condos, or offices. why so many SOxx ??? just to squeeze xtra drops of profits of coz.

You are right, I'm just saying that these kind of things can be exploited by the developer, not saying that not that all of them did.

Genuine interest here I refer to freelancers / mlm / small biz ppl who genuinely wanna utilize the flexibilities of such set-up.

To me those buying for own stay, maybe the reasons are they dont have much choice in terms of size and location , or simply its
investment cum home stay.

But largely I am thinking that investors / flippers will form the majority of buyers.

Given a choice, I wont go for SOHO, unless there's genuine USP and I cant get a similar product in the vicinity.